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Author Amory, Hugh.

Title Bibliography and the book trades : studies in the print culture of early New England / Hugh Amory ; edited by David D. Hall
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages) : illustrations
Series Material texts
Material texts.
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Short Title List -- Introduction -- 1. The Trout and the Milk An Ethnobibliographical Essay -- 2. "Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings": Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book -- 3. ''A Bible and Other Books": Enumerating the Copies in Seventeenth-Century Essex County -- 4. Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller -- 5. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 -- 6. A Boston Society Library: The Old South Church and Thomas Prince -- 7. A Note on Statistics, or, What Do Our Imprint Bibliographies Mean by "Book"? -- Index
Summary A collection of essays from one of the most renowned bibliographical scholars of our time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Book industries and trade -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Book industries and trade -- New England -- History -- 18th century
Printing industry -- New England -- History -- 17th century
Printing industry -- New England -- History -- 18th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
Book industries and trade
Printing industry
New England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, David D.
LC no. 2004054962
ISBN 9780812203905
0812203909